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About this book
This easy-to-understand text addresses critical topics in human services to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the field. You'll learn about professional issues and major theories related to human service work as well as about how to work with varying client populations and become a culturally competent helper. Major content areas include professional issues, standards in the profession (skill standards, ethics, accreditation, and credentialing), history, counseling theory, helping skills, human development, group and family counseling, community systems, consultation and supervision, and research, testing, and evaluation. The last chapter (on career development) gives you an opportunity to examine whether human services is the right field for you and helps you understand the career counseling process. The book is further distinguished by its experiential emphasis, unique use of personal vignettes, and focus on the development of the helper.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Ch 1: Defining the Human Service Professional
- Ch 2: History of and Current Issues in Human Services
- Ch 3: Standards in the Profession: Skill Standards, Credentialing, Program Accreditation, and Ethical Standards
- Ch 4: Theoretical Approaches to Human Service Work
- Ch 5: The Helping Interview: Skills, Process, and Case Management
- Ch 6: Development of the Person
- Ch 7: Couples, Family, and Group Helping
- Ch 8: Organizational and Community Change and the Role of Consultation and Supervision
- Ch 9: Culturally Competent Helping
- Ch 10: Working with Varied Client Populations
- Ch 11: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment
- Ch 12: Career Development Processes and Resources: Your Future in the Human Services
- Appendix A: Web Addresses of Select Professional Associations
- Appendix B: Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals
- Appendix C: Overview of DSM-5 Diagnostic Categories
- Appendix D: Consultation at a Mental Health Center
- Glossary
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index